Riverside, Ca- Riverside Police Department investigators have concluded that Ronald Patrick
HOFFMAN, 37, robbed a Riverside Food 4 Less store and murdered a Brink’s armored car guard in Riverside
on January 8, 2004. Hoffman died after an officer-involved shooting by Riverside County Sheriff’s
deputies in Mira Loma on July 25, 2006, following reports of brandishing a gun and a short car chase.

The conclusion of the investigation closes one of the
city’s highest profile unsolved cases, which was featured on May 1, 2004 episode of the “America’s Most
Wanted” television show and included a
$100,000 reward offer by Brink’s Inc.

Brink’s Armored Car Security guard Corey Medlock had
just entered the Food 4 Less grocery store at 4250 Van Buren Blvd., to make a cash delivery at about
10:33 a.m. on January 8, 2004, when an unknown, disguised male approached him from behind and shot
Medlock once in the head. The suspect then grabbed the moneybag, fled through an alternate exit and
drove off in a waiting red Ford Taurus.

Armored car guard Medlock, 28, of San Bernardino, died
the following day at Riverside Community Hospital. Medlock had been a Brink’s employee for seven years.
Based on available evidence, the murder weapon was believed to be a .38 caliber revolver, which was
never recovered. The theft was approximately $3,000.

The suspect was described by witnesses, and was captured
on store video images, as heavy set with a baseball hat, long dark wig, sunglasses, goatee and mustache
and wearing a heavy ski-type jacket. He also appeared to run with a limp.

At about 2:30 p.m. on the day of the murder, an
unreported stolen red 2002 Ford Taurus was found abandoned at a medical office in the 3900-block Van Buren
Blvd. The car was identified by witnesses as the getaway vehicle. A scent trail followed by a Riverside
County Sheriff’s scent dog led from the car back in the direction of the grocery store but ended abruptly
near an apartment building in the 4100-block Van Buren, which was roughly halfway between the store and
the medical building. It appeared the suspect may have gotten into a second vehicle and drove away.

Detectives followed up on hundreds of leads generated by
news of incident, followed by the reward and the national television show, without solid results.

On July 25, 2006, on a completely unrelated incident,
Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Mira Loma when customers at a store reported a suspect
threatening them with a gun. After leading deputies on a short car chase, the suspect, later identified
as Hoffman, was involved in the fatal shooting incident with a deputy.

During the subsequent Riverside County Sheriff’s
investigation, RSO personnel found among Hoffman’s possessions in his bedroom, a collection of all the
news clippings and a wanted poster pertaining to the 2004 Brink’s robbery and murder. RSO immediately
notified Riverside Police Homicide Detective Rick Cobb. A computer check revealed Hoffman’s address at
the time of the murder was an apartment at the Van Buren address, between the store and the medical
office, and where the previous scent trail had been lost.

Interviews with various witnesses revealed Hoffman had a
serious leg injury, and wore a mustache and goatee, at the time of the crime. He had talked about the
crime, in theoretical terms, with a neighbor on the day, saying, among other things, that he had studied
armored cars. Hoffman was a frequent shopper at the Food 4 Less store.

On September 14, 2006, in conjunction with a
specially-trained scent dog team from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect scent collected
from the 2004 getaway vehicle was matched in a multi-sample test to a scent sample obtained from Hoffman’s
shoes flowing his death.

Review of the case evidence determined that the deceased
Ronald Patrick Hoffman was the suspect who robbed and killed Brink’s guard Corey Medlock in 2004.

Through outstanding sustained investigation by Riverside
Police, significant public involvement and the crucial connection made by the Riverside County Sheriff’s
investigators, this case is now closed.